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Back To The Moon For Good, chronicles teams around the world competing for the largest incentivized prize in history, by landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon for the first time in more than 40 years.

Today is a #BlueMoon! Which, is the second full moon to occur in any one calendar month.

(Or, more specifically, the third full moon in a season that has four---summer/winter in this case, depending on your hemisphere!)

You see, there's usually just 12 full moons in a year (one per month), and three in a season, but occasionally we get a cool, rare bonus full moon (because a 'lunation', at 29.53 days, is actually a touch shorter than a typical calendar month). So, enjoy the extra full moon today!

Media Mentions

Astrobotic’s moon lander, Griffin, uses software to automate its navigation. It’s a leading contender in Google’s Lunar XPrize competition, which will award $20 million to the first team whose rover travels 500 meters (546 yards) on the moon.

Maybe plans for the commercial exploration of the moon aren’t so far-fetched after all. The FAA, in a carefully worded policy statement, has essentially outlined a scenario by which a U.S.-based company – Bigelow Aerospace – could stake future claims to lunar property. That could be huge.